Cowboys say bad snaps were caused by Redskins’ cheating

Posted by Michael David Smith on September 27, 2011, 5:25 PM EDT

Reuters

The Dallas Cowboys had several botched shotgun snaps on Monday night, with center Phil Costa hiking the ball to Tony Romo before Romo was ready. After the game, the Cowboys said that was because the Redskins were cheating.

NFL rules prohibit defensive players from making “disconcerting signals” by pretending to call out the quarterback’s cadence, but Romo said after the game that’s exactly what some Redskins defensive linemen were doing.

“We’ve got to get the snap thing worked out,” Romo said. “Costa said the D-line kept calling out the snap count. We’ll get that worked out. We’ll tell the league and see if that’s something that can be fixed because you’re not supposed to be able to do that. So we’ll see. But we can’t have that happen. We shouldn’t have been in that situation.”

Sounds like fishing to me. Watching the body language of Costa and Romo it showed zero signs of blaming the Redskins d-line.

Oh well, you won the game despite looking awful. Good job picking up the blitz so Romo could heave it to Dez Bryant and bad job of the Redskins offense failing to capitalize on chances. No matter how improved the defense is or what kind of talent we have in Washington, if you can’t punch the ball in the end zone you won’t win more than 8 games a year.

glac1 says:Sep 27, 2011 5:33 PM

It’s a matter of being mentally tough.. It’s obvious the Cowboys aren’t.

This is just the Cowboys whining over a victory needless to say! It shouldn’t be a rule because the Center should be able to tell the difference between his QB that is behind him and D-lineman that are right in front of him! To me its just an excuse to slap it on the other team instead of taking the responsibility! Vick complained after a loss which is expected by most teams that lose, but after a victory? Come on man!!!! Cowboys C just had a horrible game and now it looks like a childish story saying “I would have not have done it if they didn’t cheat!” Excuses excuses!

“bad job of the Redskins offense failing to capitalize on chances.”
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Dude, Dallas kicked 6 field goals, they were the team that failed to capitalize, or they would have blown out the Skins.

If the Patriots did this, all the haters would be crying to high heaven. I guess you have to smash teams and crush dreams for a decade for the haters to come out. Lol…Patriots all day… #winning…#changeyoursignalslosers

A great example is when Romo was in Shotgun, wheres the cadence for that one? Shotgun plays usually take his vision not ears! I would hate to see how the center does when they are in a loud away stadium!

It’s pretty sad to see not only the Dallas Cowboys are complaining about a victory, but the fans as well! “Redskins would have gotten blown out if the Cowboys could punch it in!” Guess what they couldn’t convert or push the ball in the endzone so 6 FG’s won the ‘boys the game! Costa you need to man up to your mistakes and stop making excuses like a child! I expect my comments to be hated because the thumbs down is most likely from a Cowboys fan anyway!

What a horrible MNF broadcast. I had to turn it off listening to the coverage team massage Romo’s prostate with their comments.

Austin was out, yet they made it sound like they didn’t have an NFL receiving corpse at all without him. By listening to the broadcast, you’d think they just got 3 or 4 guys from the home depot parking lot to try to catch passes.

Every good play was obviously Romo’s magic. Every terrible play was because his Teammates were letting him down.

Bow down before Romo, the only player to ever play through an injury.

And everyone wonders why the Cowboys have gone from being “America’s Team” to Drama Garbage.

As a skins fan thank you Me. Hall for showing your true colors. A little late, but thanks! Fear not, I talked to Portis and he said there was room in the selfish, still young, and unemployed line for you! And just to think if Good Rex hadn’t showed up against Arizona, u could have cost us two games. O well, Hope you got that foot sergically removed from your mouth on your day off!

A couple questions: if what Romo says is true, why didn’t the on field officials warn them or penalize them? 2) if they didn’t hear it, why didn’t Romo present it to the on field officials? 3) Doesn’t it sound a little absurd that the league would listen for noise on the tape, when they had on field officials? 4) Isn’t it an indictment on the refs that they are even listening to Romo? 5) Where’s the outrage of Romo’s criticism of the refs?

Finally, how stupid is it wait until after the game to point this out?

Maybe it was the roaches that were crawling all over the turf causing the bad snaps.

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Those weren’t roaches, they were Snyder’s hopes and dreams.

howley1 says:Sep 27, 2011 7:31 PM

Well, what did the cowboys do to the field to make the redskins slip all over the place??

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Faked them out of their jocks. Seriously, both teams played on the same field. Blame your staff if they couldn’t get the right nibs on their cleats. Typical Redskins inattention to detail if you ask me.

howley1 says:Sep 27, 2011 7:35 PM

ur ears dont move when u put a hemet on moron

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The sounds are funneled to the ear through a narrow hole in the helmet called an “ear hole”, brainiac. There are pads around the ears that add to the acoustical insulation of the ear itself. Everything sounds like it’s coming from the side. You’d know this if you ever played a down of organized full contact football in your life.

For those that say it’s part of the game, please tell me when blatant attempts to cheat were woven into the game.

It doesn’t really sound like Romo is claiming this happened by his own experience, but more that he’s taking Costa’s word on it. After the game Romo claimed that Costa told him it had been going on. As a Cowboys fan its hard to decide whether its legitimate or just the excuse Costa came up with for playing so poorly. I tend to lean toward the latter, but I remember Gurode had this problem pop up occasionally too, so I’m thinking that its a bit of Romo’s cadence being easy to duplicate and that teams are actually doing it. I would imagine there will be quite a bit of practice time spent this week to fix the problem.

mwcarolina says:Sep 27, 2011 8:13 PM

jeez, Romo, i like how tough you were, but ENOUGH!!!! you won!!!! MOVE ON!!!! Quit trying to make it worse by accusing a team of cheating, only one Redskin said the refs messed up, not the entire team.

ace1716 says:Sep 27, 2011 8:16 PM

Bigger issues…why is it that the center can’t tell that the call is coming from directly in front of him and not 5 yards behind him??? FAIL…sir….FAIL

The only issue I had with the officiating was the missed holding call when Demarcus Ware’s leg was grabbed from behind and the defenselss WR personal foul when they let Landry light up Robinson on the sideline.

“I guess you have to smash teams and crush dreams for a decade for the haters to come out. ”

Nope…just cheat to win, or have M. Vick as your QB.

Go Eagles.

macwomack says:Sep 27, 2011 9:13 PM

I get that calling out the count could call the center to snap the ball early but how exactly does this to get the center to launch the ball 20 or 25 yards down field?

Also if this is the case why was Romo yelling at the center during the game and not yelling at the D-line or officials.

Dallas won the game and still the team has sour grapes? What gives with that? Sour grapes has no places for winners. If Romo keeps crying he’ll start sounding a lot like MeAngelo.

twitter:Chapman_Jamie says:Sep 27, 2011 9:19 PM

Cowboy haters are the dumbest of all haters. He literally said that the bad snaps where still his fault regardless of what the skins did with the snap counts. I swear you idiots have no intelligence and lack the basic ability to read and comprehend.

Why don’t you buy a clue you friggin’ idiot. It’s common knowledge of the Donkies salary cap violations in the late 90s.

Since you’re obviously a little punk, I’m sure you’ve heard of Google right? Well, why don’t you try using it to do some research on your own before questioning the validity of my post you little piss-ant.

scudbot says:Sep 27, 2011 10:39 PM

Whose fault was it the week or two before when the center hiked a ball to a very surprised and unprepared Romo and bounced it off his chest?

snaponrules says:Sep 27, 2011 11:13 PM

I am guessing the cowboys dont mind cheating when ware is offsides several times and never get flagged?
Or holding 2 guys to get romo time while dez gets 21 yards downfield?
As usual for Jerrah, when you cant win with talent. Pull out some of the ref fund.

@rwf1984 He did take responsibility for it. It doesn’t take away blatant cheating whether or not they won or not. Had they lost you would say the same thing.

It needs to be addressed by the league, they’ve been made aware of it and I’m quite sure when we go to their house later this year it won’t be an issue, because it was brought up to the league and fixed or fixed by the Cowboys themselves.

truthserum4u says:Sep 28, 2011 4:57 AM

Off the subject (the original story is from Tuesday morning) but relative to the Dallas/Washington game:

For what it’s worth, and sort of interesting since so many were roasting Hall for the play, here’s Mike Pereira’s take on the face mask call.

Comment From Anthony Anthony :
Tuesday September 27, 2011 1:15

The facemask on D. Hall during Dallas’ last scoring drive… I thought it’s not a penalty unless you grab the mask (and pull on it)?

1:16 That wasn’t a foul. There was no twist, turn or jerk. That was the old version of the 5 yard penalty. You are all over it, Anthony.

7thlombardiontheway says:
Sep 27, 2011 5:36 PM
I wish this league had enough tissues to go around *sobs*
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They have all been used by 6stairwayto7.

razedeyebrow says:Sep 28, 2011 7:04 AM

Weak as hell. You’re SUPPOSED to know the snap count already, Cowboys. Are you going to muzzle everybody in the crowd because they’re making too much noise too?

oranjellojones says:Sep 28, 2011 8:27 AM

truthserum actually posted a fact…more painful reality for the Puke fans. Gotta laugh at walking turds like Jamie Chapman thinking that Costa couching his weak comments with “but it’s our fault and we have to fix it” negates the fact that he made excuses to deflect the blame of his poor play. Saying it was his fault after accusing the Skins of cheating (where’s the snap count on all those shotgun snaps he blew?) is MEANINGLESS…he already made the excuse you mentard.

Oh and D Hall is a loudmouthed punk for sure but he was right…there was no foul and yes he got screwed. That said, the loudmouth still was responsible for giving up multiple big plays including the penultimate one on 3rd and 21 so he needs a big cup of STFU.

hunter300win says:Sep 28, 2011 10:08 AM

qdog112 says:
Sep 27, 2011 7:19 PM
A couple questions: if what Romo says is true, why didn’t the on field officials warn them or penalize them? 2) if they didn’t hear it, why didn’t Romo present it to the on field officials? 3) Doesn’t it sound a little absurd that the league would listen for noise on the tape, when they had on field officials? 4) Isn’t it an indictment on the refs that they are even listening to Romo? 5) Where’s the outrage of Romo’s criticism of the refs?

Finally, how stupid is it wait until after the game to point this out?

Yea on field officials. They were great. The same ones in the backfield that ignored Dware getting Mugged/Tackled/Held.